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Text of the Declassified Footnotes from the IG Report on FISA:

 

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Hurricane told us that they were unaware of Steele's connections to Russian

Oligarch 1, who was the subject of a Crossfire Hurricane case, and that they would

have wanted to know about them. 349 Priestap, for example, told us "I don't recall

knowing that there was any connectivity between [Steele] and [Russian Oligarch

1]." Priestap told us that he believed it was "completely fair" to say that the FBI

should have assessed Steele's relationship with Russian Oligarch 1.

 

(U) Stuart Evans, NSD's Deputy Assistant Attorney General who oversaw OI,

stated that if OI had been aware of the information about Steele's connections to

Russian Oligarch 1, it would have been evaluated by 01. He told us:

"Counterintelligence investigations are complex, and often involve,as I said, you

know, double dealing, and people playing all sides …. I think that [the connection

between Steele and Russian Oligarch 1] would have been yet another thing we

would have wanted to dive into."350

 

V. (U) The FBI's Efforts to Assess Steele's Election Reporting in 2016

and 2017

(U) The FBI's assessment of the Steele election reporting began in midSeptember 2016 and concluded approximately 1 year later, roughly 3 months after

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349 (U) The Supervisory Intel Analyst and SSA 2 told us that they did not recall reviewing

information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs in 2015. The Supervisory Intel Analyst explained that he did not recall doing a "deep dive" on Steele's past history as a source and relied in part on Handling Agent 1 for information about Steele. The first access of Steele's Delta file by a Crossfire Hurricane team member (the Supervisory Intel Analyst) occurred on November 18, 2016, after Steele had been closed as a CHS and a month after submission of the first Page FISA application. As described in Chapter Five, the FISA application relied in part on Steele's reporting. In Chapter Four we noted that Steele's

frequent contacts with Russian oligarchs in 2015 had raised concerns in the FBI Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit. SSA 1 told us that he was unaware of these concerns, but said he would have found this information useful and would have wanted to know about it while supervising the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Handling Agent 1 expressed surprise that the Crossfire Hurricane team did not access Steele's Delta file earlier. He said that the team should have "turned the file upside down" looking for information 2 months earlier and that he assumed that some members of the team had thoroughly reviewed the file.

 

350 [Redacted] In addition to the information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multi le Russian oligarchs, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received from [Redacted] indicating the potential for Russian disinformation influencing Steele's election reporting. A [Redacted] 2017, report relayed information from [Redacted] [Redacted] outlining an inaccuracy in a limited subset of Steele's reporting about the activities of Michael Cohen. The [Redacted] stated that it did not have high confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations. A second report from the same [Redacted] five days later stated that a, person named in the limited subset of Steele's reporting had denied representations in the report and the [Redacted] assessed that the person's denials were truthful. A [Redacted] report dated [Redacted] 2017, contained information about an individual with reported connections to Trump and Russia who claimed that the public reporting about the details of Trump's [Redacted] activities in Moscow during a trip in 2013 were false, and thatthey were the product of RIS "infiltrat[ing) a source into the network" of a [Redacted] [Long Redaction] who compiled a dossier of information on Trump's activities. The [Redacted] noted that it had no information indicating that the individual had special access to RIS activities or information.

 

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  1. (Crossed Out) According to a document circulated among Crossfire Hurricane team members and supervisors in early October 2016, Person 1 had historical contact with persons and entities suspected of being linked to RIS. The document described reporting [Redacted] that Person 1 "was rumored to be a former KGB/SVR officer." In addition, in late December 2016, Department Attorney Bruce Ohr told SSA 1 that he had met with Glenn Simpson and that Simpson had assessed that Person 1 was a RIS officer who was central in connecting Trump to Russia.

 

  1. (Crossed Out) When interviewed by the FBI, the Primary Sub-source stated that he/she did not view his/her contacts as a network of sources, [Redacted] with whom he/she has conversations about current events and government relations.

 

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https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04-02%20DOJ%20to%20CEG%20-%20Footnotes%20from%20%27Crossfire%27%20IG%20report.pdf

https://saraacarter.com/fbis-central-evidence-to-spy-on-trump-campaign-was-russian-disinformation-declassified-ig-footnotes-reveal/

 

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